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The Chicago Artists Coalition

CAC is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary Chicago artists and curators by offering residency programs, exhibitions, professional development and resources that enable them to live, work and thrive in the city. CAC is deeply committed to advancing the cause of art and its importance to Chicago’s culture and economy by cultivating a wide-reaching civic, philanthropic and public support network.

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HATCH Projects 2016-2017

Artist Residents

Amy Leners is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her work is in collaboration with forgotten spaces, exploring our relationships to architecture and space, specifically our homes and how the possible ephemerality of these spaces affects our psyche.

Anna Showers-Cruser is a femme feminist maker who believes in the transformative potential of collected materials, including but not limited to: synthetic eyelashes, handmade protest signs, crocheted handkerchiefs from grand-aunts in Pulaski, VA, and petroleum jelly.

Azadeh's work questions how she can transform her discomfort of border crossing and lack of geographical identity into a tool to attain intellectual freedom and a broader understanding of culture, identity and home.

As a collector of material based information, Jeff Prokash draws upon the conventions of preservation, appropriation and the historical archive to produce object based interventions that raise questions about accessibility, ownership and connectivity between cultural phenomena.

I use painting, collage, and video to query the relationships between collapses of time-based experience and static images. This image making process does not beg the question why forms begin and exist, but how they will play out.

Based in Chicago, Pooja is a visual artist who uses painting as a way to capture some of the movement she has lost through her muscular disability, allowing the viewer a glimpse into her colorful, optimistic and liberating studio practice.